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Foliated initial capital letter “S” Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This decorated drop cap “S” has vine leaves intertwined with the letter.

There is also a colour version in red and green, which I made.

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Added: 2011-04-17

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Foliated initial capital letter “S” (coloured version) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I coloured the initial letter S from the first page. The letter is red and the vine leaves are green; obviously you could change this.

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Added: 2011-04-17

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Letter S from “Alphabet after Serlio” Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter S taken from Fig. 2.

Keywords: letters, initials, lettering, greyscale

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Added: 2006-03-23

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter A by Valerio Spada Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “A” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: a person with a walking-stick or cane, and wearing hat and coat, sits under a tree; another person [...]

Keywords: lettera, letters, people, bucolic scenes, frames, colour

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Added: 2011-03-22

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter C by Valerio Spada Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “C” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: a man stands with a falcon on one arm, and a dog at his feet; he talks to a man on a horse. No doub [...]

Keywords: letterc, letters, frames, borders, people, bucolic scenes, hunting, riding, horses, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-22

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter D by Valerio Spada Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “D” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: a man wearing a Dutch hat and boots steps through the letter D carrying a basket. In the backgroun [...]

Keywords: letterd, letters, frames, borders, people, bucolic scenes, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-22

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Historiated decorative initial capital letter S in Blue Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Letter “S” from Valerio Spada’s historiated alphabet print from 1659. I have coloured the letter itself in blue; you could easily change the blue to something else of course.

Keywords: initials, letters, historiated initials, colour

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Added: 2011-05-31

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Letter “S” from 16th century book of hours Book of Hours, Ms. Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10 (1533)

The letter S painted in blue and gold used as a decorative initial. More precisely there’s gold leaf on a blue background.

This image was on image 23 of the Library of Congress page images.

Keywords: letters, initials, calligraphy, colour, lettering, christmas

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Added: 2007-05-21

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Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter S from XIV. Century No. 1 The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Calligraphic letter S from XIV. Century No. 1.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

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Added: 2003-05-26

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Decorative initial letter “S” from 16th Century Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This capital letter “S” is suitable for use as a drop cap (dropped capital) or a decorative initial; there’s also a small version for an avatar or icon. It shows a king as a beast, and a bird-beast. [...]

Keywords: letters, initials, royalty, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2009-11-28

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62s.—Initial capital letter “S” from Dance of Death Alphabet. Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This decorative initial letter “S”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. The skeleton figures in the alphabet represent death. This letter, S, has two skelet [...]

Keywords: letters, initials, death, people, skeletons, sex, women, greyscale

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Added: 2011-02-28

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Alphabet from the Golden Bible, late 15th Century Alphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)

From about the end of the 15th Century. FROM THE GOLDEN BIBLE Printed at Augsburg I do not know which book is meant here. However, I am making the individual letters available at larger size. A B C D [...]

Keywords: page images, alphabets, letters, lettering, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2008-08-13

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